What is Your Land?

Toward the last quarter of last year, the Lord began to speak to me very clearly about land. He started bringing back to me dreams I had had about land and deeds, not as random imagery, but as pictures that carried weight, authority, and assignment. As I entered into my Monday prayer sessions, I found myself consistently praying and speaking about spiritual land, territory, and the acquisitions God is releasing to His people in this hour.

I know this is not language we always use in modern church culture, but land has always been a central biblical theme. In the Old Testament, land represented promise, inheritance, identity, covenant, and divine assignment. Taking possession of land was not merely about geography, it was about obedience, partnership with God, and stepping into what He had already decreed. In the New Testament, the language shifts, but the principle remains. Land becomes less about physical conquest and more about stewardship, sphere, and assignment. It becomes about where God has placed you, who He has called you to serve, and how you steward what He has entrusted to you.

As I have watched what has been happening in the world, I have noticed that we are literally seeing land being contested, occupied, and infiltrated in new and visible ways. We are seeing foreign religious symbols and structures being erected in different parts of the United States, massive statues of Hindu deities being raised in places like North Carolina and Texas, even larger than the Statue of Liberty, and global movements carrying their own religious and legal systems expanding into new territories. We are watching different belief systems, ideologies, and cultural frameworks position themselves in spaces that were once shaped by a very different spiritual foundation. None of this surprises me, Scripture has always told us that the earth would be filled with competing systems and spiritual influences, but awareness of that reality does not remove our responsibility as believers.

And I want to be very clear here. I am not saying any of this because I am in agreement with what we are seeing. What I am saying is that there is a real war on territory right now, both naturally and spiritually. What concerns me is that if we do not take up the places God is asking us to occupy, if we do not steward the realms, spheres, and assignments He has given us, we will continue to see greater infiltration in those very spaces. When light withdraws, something else will always move in. Nothing we do is merely for ourselves. When one of us steps into obedience, takes responsibility, and begins to occupy what God has given us, it makes room for others to do the same. Our faithfulness strengthens the body, and our neglect weakens it. So answering the call to occupy is not just personal, it is corporate, it affects families, communities, cities, and future generations. This is why unity matters, because God is not just raising up isolated individuals, He is raising up a people who will stand together in their God-given places.

This is also why the parable of the minas and the talents is so sobering to me. In that parable, every servant was given something to steward. Some multiplied what they were given, but one buried his in the ground out of fear and was judged for it. That servant did not lose his gift because he failed, he lost it because he refused to occupy. That story makes it clear that God is not only concerned with what we receive from Him, but with what we do with what we receive. Stewardship, faithfulness, and occupation are not optional, they are part of our responsibility as sons and daughters in the Kingdom.

This is part of why the Lord led me to the book of Judges. Judges opens at a pivotal moment. Joshua, the leader who had broken the military power of Israel’s enemies, had just died. When the people asked God who would go up first to fight, He did not appoint another singular leader like Moses or Joshua. Instead, He said that the tribe of Judah would go up first. That shift stood out to me because it was no longer about one man carrying the weight of the nation. God was transitioning His people from a “one-man show” model to a corporate body taking responsibility together.

Judah then partnered with the tribe of Simeon to fight the remaining Canaanites in their allotted territory. That partnership spoke to me about unity, collaboration, and shared responsibility. It reminded me of the New Testament reality that God now works through a collective people filled with His Spirit, where every joint must supply, every believer carries authority, and the body of Christ is meant to function together rather than depending on one central figure. In Acts, the Spirit was poured out on all flesh, not just on one leader, which means God is intentionally distributing His power, His voice, and His authority across His people.

This is where something powerful became clear to me. Joshua had already broken the stronghold of the enemy, but the Canaanites were still in the land. The power had been shattered, but the people had not fully occupied what God had given them. That revealed to me the critical difference between possession and occupation. Possession is God saying it is yours. Occupation is us saying I will live in it, guard it, and rule it.

Spiritually, this principle is just as relevant today. When God breaks a stronghold in your life, delivers you, heals you, or shifts you into a new place, you must now occupy that space with truth, identity, prayer, and obedience. If you do not, the enemy will attempt to return, just as Jesus warned in Luke 11, when an unclean spirit leaves a house, finds it swept and put in order but empty, and comes back with seven more. Deliverance without occupation creates vacancy, and vacancy invites reinvasion.

So when I talk about land, I am not only talking about physical land. Land is realm. Land is sphere. Land is assignment. Land is the place God has marked for you to steward. Some people will be called to purchase actual physical land, build property, or establish physical spaces. Others will be called to build ministries, businesses, families, movements, creative works, or spheres of cultural influence. But every single one of us has been given a place to occupy.

The question I keep hearing the Lord ask is simple but weighty. What is your land? What is the place God has placed on your heart? Who are the people He has burdened you for? What space, sphere, or assignment has He consistently brought before you? That is your territory. That is the place you are meant to steward with faithfulness, responsibility, and light, not control, domination, or gatekeeping.

Make no mistake, wherever God calls you, there will be resistance. There is always warfare around territory. There is always contention when light moves into darkness. That does not mean you are out of place, often it is confirmation that you are exactly where you are meant to be. But our response is not coercion or domination. Light does not need to force itself into a space, it naturally displaces darkness simply by being present.

If you are trying to discern what your land is, begin by asking yourself some honest questions. Who am I truly called to serve? Where do I feel compelled to pray or intercede? Is God asking me to step into new physical places, relationships, or environments? What has He been consistently showing me in my dream life? What burdens do I carry that do not leave me? These are often clues to your God-given territory.

Possession is God saying this is yours. Occupation is you saying I will take responsibility for it. And in this season, God is calling His people not just to possess promises, but to occupy them with wisdom, courage, and faithful stewardship.